Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels (born October 2 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish architect. He is heading the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. In his designs, Bjarke Ingels often try to balance a playful and a practical approach to architecture.
Early career
Bjarke Ingels studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona, receiving his diploma in 1998. As a 3rd year student he set up his first practice and won his first competition.[1] From 1998-2001 he worked for Office of Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam.
In 2001 Bjarke Ingels returned to Copenhagen to set up the architectural practice PLOT together with Belgian OMA colleague Julien de Smedt. The company achieved fast success and received significant national and international attention for their inventive designs. This included a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004 for a proposal for a new music house for Stavanger, Norway.Their first major project to be realized was the award-winning VM Houses in Ørestad, Copenhagen in 2005. In spite of the success and attention, PLOT was disbanded in January 2006 and Bjarke Ingels created Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG, while his former partner founded Julien de Smedt Design, JDS Design.[2]
Bjarke Ingels Group
With BIG Bjarke Ingels has continued the ideology from PLOT and has several major projects under construction or development both in Denmark and abroad. These include BIH House in Ørestad and the new Danish national Maritime museum in Elsinore, hotel projects in Norway, a highrise designed in the shape of the Chinese character for 'people' for Shanghai, a masterplan for the redevelopment of a former naval base and oil industry waste land into a zero-emission resort and entertainment city off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan[3], shaped as the seven mountains of the country, and a museum overlooking Mexico City.
Under the BIG Banner Bjarke recently published "Yes is more - an archcomic on architectural evolution".
On 24 July 2009, he delivered a talk at the prestigious TED event in Oxford, UK.
Design philosophy
On explaining his design ideas, Bjarke Ingels has stated:
Selected projects
- Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, Shenzhen, China (competition win, September 2009)
- Astana National Library, Astana, Kazakhstan (competition win, August 2009)
- New Tallinn City Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (competition win, June 2009)
- Kaufhauskanal , Hamburg, Germany (competitiin win,April 2009)
- New Tamayo Museum, Mexico City (competition win, April 2009)
- The Battery, Copenhagen
- Zira Island masterplan
- Superkilen, Copenhagen, DK (competition win 2008, completion 2011)
- Danish pavilion, EXPO 2010, Shanghai, China
- The Eight/BIG House, Ørestad, Copenhagen (u/c, completion 2010)
- National Maritime Museum, Elsinore, Denmark (u/c, completion 2011/12)
- Mountain Dwellings, Ørestad, Copenhagen (completed 2008)
- People's Building, Shanghai, China
- Headquarters for Sjakket, Copenhagen (completed 2007)
- Helsingør Psychiatric Hospital, Elsinore, Denmark (completed 2005)
- VM Houses, Ørestad, Denmark (completed 2oo5)
- Maritime Youth House, Amager, DK (completed 2004)
- Islands Brygge Harbour Bath, 2,500 m2 (Completed 2003)
Awards
- 2009 ULI Award for Excellence (for Mountain Dwellings)[4]
- MIPIM Award 2009 for best residential development (for Mountain Dwellings)[5]
- 2008 World Architecture Festival Award for Best Residential Building (for Mountain Dwellings)
- 2008 Forum AID Award for Best Building in Scandinavia in 2008 (for Mountain Dwellings)
- 2007 Contract World Award for Best Interior (for Sjakket Headquarters)
- 2007 IOC Honorable Mention - Islands Brygge Harbor Bath
- 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award Traveling Exhibition - VM-houses
- 2006 Forum AID Award, Best Building in Scandinavia in 2006 (for VM Houses)
- 2005 Mies van der Rohe Award- Special Mention (for Maritime Youth House)
- 2004 Copenhagen Award for Architecture (for Maritime Youth House)
- 2004 ar+d award for the Maritime Youth House
- Golden Lion 2004, Venice Biennale (for Stavanger Concert Hall)
- 2003 Scanorama Design Award
- 2003 Henning Larsen Prize
- 2002 Nykredits Architecture Prize
- 2001 Henning Larsen Prize
Teaching
Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke has been active as a Visiting Professor at Rice University School of Architecture and Harvard Graduate School of Design[6] and currently at Columbia University's, Graduate School of Architecture.[7]
Exhibitions
- 2009 Yes is More, Danish Architecture, Copenhagen[8][9]
- 2007 BIG City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York[10]
Bibliography
- Bjarke Ingels, 'Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution’ , Copenhagen 2009, ISBN – 9788799298808[11]
External links
- Official web site
- TED Talk, Bjarke Ingels at TED
- Television interview
- BIG Projects
- webcast at DAC (in Danish)
References
External links
- Official web site
- TED Talk, Bjarke Ingels at TED
- Television interview
- BIG Projects
- webcast at DAC (in Danish)